Word: saunter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main street. Pubs thereafter were ordered closed at 10 o'clock on Saturday nights. This ended neither the boozing nor the love-making on the dike. Last week Urk's irked elders cracked down. A new Urk law made it a crime to "trudge, slouch, lounge, saunter, flock together" or "to sit or lie" after dark along public roads. Maximum penalty: a fine of 300 guilders ($79) or two months in jail. Love-smitten Urkers hoped to get around the ban simply by taking to the woods on the mainland, a short bike ride away. Mourned one oldtimer...
...young wife, but a fading movie queen, Ariadne de Lago (Geraldine Page). The ineffectual young man, Chance Wayne (Paul Newman), is a sexual athlete, but an impotent failure as the actor he wants to be. The has-been and the would-be smoke hashish ("Moroccan, and the finest") and saunter to the footlights to tell their sordid life stories in monologue...
Says Siles: "Inflation is a fire that is burning down our house. Stabilization will save us from the fire. But do not expect, amigos, to saunter out of the house wearing a new suit and smoking a cigarette. We will be lucky...
...tardy professor's permission to release his name to the anxious students. If they faculty member agrees, the undergraduate may be privileged to take a bus-ride over to Brookline and read the volume at the professor's home. If not, he might as well give up and saunter down Widener's steps and into the Yard, resolutely humming "Rock of Ages...
Instead of using a behind-the-scenes voice for narration, the producers of Operation Ivy employed Television Actor Reed Hadley, star of Public Defender and Racket Squad, to saunter through the picture in khaki uniform, lighting his pipe, leaning negligently against bulkheads, and standing against the tropic sky. Actor Hadley (who was whisked secretly to the Pacific in 1952 and who was not allowed to let even his wife know where he had been until last week) could hardly be blamed for doing his conscientious best in the role assigned him. But a great deal of his job was devoted...